物

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 牜 + phonetic 勿

Han character

物 (radical 93 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 2752₀, composition ⿰牜勿)

1. thing, substance, creature

Derived characters

• 惣

References

• KangXi: page 699, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
• Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1805, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7269

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Cantonese

Hanzi

物 (Jyutping mat6, Yale mat6)

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Japanese

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) もの​ [mònó] (Odaka)
• IPA^(key): [mo̞no̞]

Kanji

物

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぶつ (butsu), もつ (motsu)
• Kun: もの (mono)

Compounds

好物 (こうぶつ) (kōbutsu): favorite food 本物 (ほんもの) (honmono): real 物語 (ものがたり) (monogatari): tale, story

食 (た)べ物 (もの) (tabemono): food 着物 (きもの) (kimono): kimono 動物 (どうぶつ) (dōbutsu): animal

果物 (くだもの) (kudamono): fruit 見物 (けんぶつ) (kenbutsu): sightseeing

Noun

物 (hiragana もの, romaji mono)

1. thing

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Korean

Hanja

物 (mul)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 물 (revised: mul, McCune-Reischauer: mul, Yale: mul)

• Name (hangeul): 물건 (revised: mulgeon, McCune-Reischauer: mulgŏn, Yale: mwulken)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
物

Pronunciation

Mandarin (Standard Chinese, Beijing) Pinyin wù Zhuyin ㄨˋ IPA (key) /u⁵¹/

Hanzi

物 (Pinyin wù (wu4), Wade-Giles wu⁴)

Noun

物 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin wù)

1. thing, matter

Compounds

• 动物 (animal)
• 物以类聚 (物以類聚)
• 物產

• 嚙齒目動物
• 寵物
• 文物 (cultural relic)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

物 (POJ bu̍t (but⁸), mn̍g (mng⁸), mi̍h (mih⁸))

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Vietnamese

Han character

物 (vật)